The Little Mermaid Fell for the Jiaoren 33

Chapter 33: I Didn’t Look

Compared to human legs, Jiaoren naturally preferred the seawater. But Si Jisheng had always had very few opportunities to indulge himself. When he had endured it too many times, the dryness of his fish tail became a habit.

The moment he entered the sea, his bright silver tail instantly appeared. The dry scales were moisturized by the seawater, and his restless mental sea seemed to be calmed by the ocean.

Deng Xi flicked his tail fin and swam closer. Because he was not wrapped in clothes, he noticed the bloody hole on the silver-tail’s arm again, and instantly threw the question he had just had to the back of his mind.

Because a long time had passed, the wound had already slightly scabbed over. But the moment it touched the salty seawater, a slight trace of blood still oozed out. Deng Xi swam over and said anxiously, “Isn’t Little Mute’s wound healed yet?”

Si Jisheng didn’t really care.

But Deng Xi was already anxiously circling around.

Si Jisheng dived into the sea and swam a certain distance away.

Deng Xi was momentarily dazed, then followed like a little tail. “Where is Little Mute going?”

The silver-tail led the blue-tail through patch after patch of current. In the surging rapids, the Jiaoren’s subsonic voice sounded low, “New home.”

While Deng Xi was in a daze, they had already arrived at their destination.

They had come to the coast.

This was a manor that stretched along the entire coast. One could swim all the way from the sea to the center of the pool inside the building. Below the pool was a bottomless underwater abyss.

The unique darkness of the seabed stretched all the way down. The cliffs were covered with wild-growing seaweed and many colorful coral reefs. Swimming up from the abyss and emerging from the water was a human house.

Deng Xi was led by the silver-tail to the side of the pool. He looked around curiously and saw his familiar large shell on the shore.

It was the large shell that Aier had said the Marshal had given him.

It was here too!

Deng Xi looked at the silver-tail, but the next second, a large palm covered the upper half of his face. The tip of his nose was filled with the damp, salty scent of the sea, with a hint of coldness, but the palm was much warmer than the seawater.

His vision was plunged into darkness. He blinked, and his curly eyelashes, like a wet little brush, swept across the man’s palm.

Deng Xi was very well-behaved. Even with his eyes covered, he stayed quietly in place without moving. He tilted his head. “Is it something I can’t see?”

Si Jisheng let out a low sound of agreement. “Turn around first.”

The little merman obediently covered his own eyes and turned his back, his movements clearly expressing one meaning: he was super obedient and wouldn’t peek!

Si Jisheng let out a slight sigh of relief, transformed into his human form, went ashore, picked up a pair of combat pants, and, ignoring the residual seawater, put them on directly.

The moment he turned around, he saw Deng Xi staring at him with wide, curious eyes.

His breath instantly hitched.

Deng Xi, who had been discovered, immediately covered his own eyes, tentatively turned his back, and returned to his previous posture. The little merman quietly lowered his head, trying to hide himself with his golden hair.

Deng Xi pricked up his ears and quietly listened to the movement behind him for a while. Why was there no sound? He quietly lowered the hand that was covering his eyes, turned around to look behind him, and the moment he looked up, he saw a pair of silver eyes quietly looking at him.

Deng Xi put his hands behind his back and lowered his head guiltily, as if he had done something wrong. Si Jisheng walked up the steps in the pool and walked down with a box he had just picked up. “This is a first-aid kit.”

The moment the topic was changed, the guilty little merman lifted his face again, curved his eyes, and swam over. “What’s it for?”

Si Jisheng explained, “To treat injuries.”

The red medicinal grass that could treat wounds was unique to that planet. He needed to instill new knowledge in Deng Xi. At the very least, he had to learn how to properly treat wounds in this new world after getting injured.

He would be the example himself.

The first-aid kit was opened under Deng Xi’s gaze. He watched seriously as the little mute picked up a bottle of potion and poured it on the bloody hole on his hand. The “hissing” sound of disinfection came, and it sounded very painful.

Deng Xi sucked in a breath in sympathy. “Is it very, very painful?”

Si Jisheng: “It’s alright.”

He put down the disinfectant potion. “Next is this small bottle.”

Deng Xi seriously memorized it and nodded.

After Si Jisheng had applied the treatment solution, he wrapped the wound with a special waterproof cloth.

In the past, he would usually let such a small wound heal on its own. After all, with the Jiaoren’s healing ability, it would only take a day.

For a normal person, a small wound would generally be treated like this. If it were a large wound, a normal treatment pod would be used to heal it. But Si Jisheng hoped that Deng Xi would never have a day where he would need to use a treatment pod.

The ancient Imperial documents recorded that mermen were an extremely fragile species. For Jiaoren, they were two extremes. One was a top predator that could dominate the entire food chain, and the other was a bottom-feeder that could be bullied by anyone.

They were too fragile.

Even with the protection of the ocean, they would slowly disappear in the long river of history due to all kinds of accidents.

Deng Xi was the last hope of the merman species.

He must have had a very difficult life, only being able to eat seaweed clumps every day in the ocean of the past. Only when he was lucky could he eat fresh fish.

Catching a fish would get him covered in bruises, and when he encountered other sea creatures, he could only run away.

He couldn’t imagine how Deng Xi had survived in the ocean.

Si Jisheng looked at the scene before him. This was a piece of natural ocean that he could give back to Deng Xi in the imperial capital. Compared to that planet, this sea area was very small. The only fortunate thing was that it was very safe.

Si Jisheng placed the first-aid kit in a very obvious and accessible place by the side of the pool.

A merman’s constitution was such that they would easily get bruised and scraped without realizing it. It was better to be prepared.

“Also.”

Deng Xi raised his head and looked at the little mute curiously. His ocean-blue eyes looked exceptionally clear and pure, like crystal-clear blue sapphires.

Si Jisheng’s chest heaved once. He was a little helpless, but he still said patiently, “It’s very rude to stare at someone’s… there.”

Deng Xi was momentarily stunned and blinked innocently, as if he wasn’t the one who had been secretly peeking at the little mute after he had entered the water in human clothes.

He asked curiously, “Why can’t I look?”

Si Jisheng was also stunned for a moment. He opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain. He hesitated for a moment before asking, “Don’t you have a mating season?”

Deng Xi’s ears turned red, and he said in a small voice, “Not yet.”

A merman would choose to become male or female on a certain day after their cub period, and their mating season would arrive on a certain day after they came of age.

Although Deng Xi was of age, he had not yet experienced it.

He didn’t understand why the little mute would ask him such a shameful question.

What did the two have to do with each other?

A rare sense of helplessness arose in Si Jisheng. He didn’t know how to explain that a human’s triangular area was equivalent to a merman’s or, in other words, a Jiaoren’s reproductive organs. He was defeated. “In short, you can’t look.”

Deng Xi: “What is it?”

Si Jisheng coughed twice. “I’ll go prepare the food for later.”

He fled in disarray.

After leaving the pool, Si Jisheng put on a clean set of clothes and opened his comm. Just as he was about to contact the adjutant, the adjutant took the initiative to call him.

The adjutant was exceptionally cautious. The Marshal had been in a bad mood these past two days, and his aura had been one of “stay away.” But the research institute and the Council of Elders had been constantly stirring up trouble, making him have to be careful when reporting the situation, afraid of stepping on a landmine. “The director couldn’t find you just now, so he came to ask me how your treatment plan is going to proceed?”

Si Jisheng’s silver eyes narrowed slightly.

The adjutant instantly understood that he had stepped on a landmine with his first sentence.

Si Jisheng asked in a cold voice, “What does my treatment plan have to do with the research institute?”

The adjutant instantly breathed a sigh of relief. “I’ll immediately send someone to drive those guys who are refusing to leave out of the military headquarters.”

The adjutant then asked cautiously, “Then does your treatment plan need to be changed?”

Si Jisheng frowned coldly. “No need. It will be the same as before.”

The adjutant: “Then what if the Council of Elders asks about your… that person?” He saw the Marshal’s attitude and was eager to try. “Marshal, can we take action?”

The research institute was backed by the Council of Elders. Since they couldn’t get what they wanted from the military, they would naturally have those old men from the Council of Elders come forward.

The adjutant really didn’t want to deal with them. What negotiation skills? It was better to use his fists.

The adjutant was angry just thinking about it. The Empire had a separation of three powers. The only ones who had a say were the royal family, the military, and the Council of Elders.

If it weren’t for the fact that the Marshal’s identity as an alien was still being criticized, the military wouldn’t have had to swallow their anger after being backstabbed by the Council of Elders. The military’s concession to the royal family back then, allowing that treatment pod into the military and political building, was the greatest humiliation.

But now.

Although according to the regulations, aliens did have to be placed in the research institute and then picked up by their guardians, they were the ones who had fought the star pirates, and they were the ones who had paid the money. Their Marshal had to find a high-sounding reason to take back the person he liked, going through so many twists and turns.

The adjutant sighed in his heart. If only the Marshal wasn’t an alien and didn’t need any so-called treatment.

Si Jisheng first nodded, then asked in return, “My that person?”

The adjutant subconsciously said, “The one you like, Marshal. It’s already spread throughout the military—” he instantly shut his mouth.

Si Jisheng’s expression did not change. “Extra training for three hours, all of you.”

The adjutant saluted in pain.

But the next second, he realized something. The Marshal didn’t deny it?! So it’s true?

The adjutant coughed violently, his face flushed. Just as he was about to cut off the communication, he heard their Marshal suddenly ask a question, “When you found me back then, where was I?”

The adjutant thought carefully and recounted, “You had lost your reason at that time and were alone in a dark cave.”

These matters had already been reported a long time ago.

The adjutant repeated, “Marshal, you can look at the video footage from that time. It was indeed only you.”

Si Jisheng’s brow furrowed tightly. His silver eyes drooped slightly, and he stared at the blue scale bracelet that was pressed tightly against his skin for a while before tightening his mechanical gloves. “Was the shell in the cave closed or open?”

Such a minor detail, the adjutant really couldn’t remember it at once. He pulled up the video footage from that year and was about to click on the video. “Marshal, wait for me to take a look. But it was on the seabed at that time, and there were no lights. The recorded footage is not clear, so it’s difficult to find.”

Si Jisheng paused for a moment. “No need, just send the video over.” He thought for a moment, then instructed, “And find me a documentary on sex education.”